Gallery  >  iCODE Summer 2010

Students in Machine Science's after-school program finished the year with a two-week summer camp on the campus of UMass Boston. During the first weeik, participating students built and programmed a variety of creative embedded computing devices, including a random number guessing game, an electronic game timer and scorekeeper, and a user-settable alarm clock. During the second week, students were challenged to build powerful DC motor robots, using equipment provided by GEARS Educational Systems of Hanover, MA. Campers connected wireless transceivers and pneumatic actuators to their robots, so that they could compete in a remote-controlled ball-kicking challenge.